In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "MackS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just read that on some systems perl allows you to rename the > process by assigning to $0: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=401299 > > Is there a way to do the same in python? My trouble is that this are > small utilities that I start from the command line and later need to > stop; I just find myself unable to do so with stopping all of them... Someone has undoubtedly managed to do this, with a C module. It isn't portable - there isn't a standard (e.g., POSIX) way to do it - and no doubt that's one reason you won't find it in standard Python. If I ever needed something like that (I haven't), I guess I would use execve() to start the process with a name other than python. E.g., os.execve('/usr/bin/python', ['test1', '/tmp/test1'], os.environ) $ ps wwaux | fgrep test1 donn 227 ... 1568 p1 S 9:30AM 0:00.19 test1 /tmp/test1 (instead of normal) os.execve('/usr/bin/python', ['python', '/tmp/test1'], os.environ) You can make a cover program to do this: os.execve('/usr/bin/python', [sys.argv[1] + sys.argv[1:], os.environ) Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
